---
title: "Got an MSBuild-SikdeKick wish? Post it on Matan's blog!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/11/got-an-msbuild-sikdekick-wish-post-it-on-matans-blog.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/11/got-an-msbuild-sikdekick-wish-post-it-on-matans-blog.html"
published: "2006-06-11T00:16:00"
updated: "2006-06-11T00:16:00"
tags: [".NET", ".Net 2.0", "Team System", "Visual Studio"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Matan Holtzer is one of the guys behind the new MSBuild SideKick , which is essentialy a visual editor for editing MSBuild and Team Build files instead of editing raw XML (and a tool like this comes out only now??). His…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Got an MSBuild-SikdeKick wish? Post it on Matan's blog!

By Roy Osherove June 11, 2006 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system), [Visual Studio](https://osherove.com/blog/category/visual-studio)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 11, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Matan Holtzer](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tfsidekicks/) is one of the guys behind the new [MSBuild SideKick](http://www.attrice.info/msbuild/), which is essentialy a visual editor for editing MSBuild and Team Build files instead of editing raw XML (and a tool like this comes out only now??).

His blog will focus, among other things on SideKick, so if you have any complaints like these, queries or wishes, it's time to ping him on the blog and comment!

## More in .NET

[All posts in .NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net)

- Jun 14, 2006

    ### [Interface Naming - Anything But Java's Standard, Please](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/14/interface-naming-anything-but-javas-standard-please.html)

- Jun 11, 2006

    ### [Resharper Vs. Refactor! and CodeRush - Let the games begin.](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/11/resharper-vs-refactor-and-coderush-let-the-games-begin.html)

- Jun 7, 2006

    ### [News: TestDriven, SideKick, Expression Evaluators and Security to boot](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/6/7/news-testdriven-sidekick-expression-evaluators-and-security.html)

- May 29, 2006

    ### [Review: Shell MegaPack - Windows Explorer GUI Replacement Controls](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/5/29/review-shell-megapack-windows-explorer-gui-replacement-contr.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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